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"FLASH radiotherapy" is a technique being developed at Institut Curie in Orsay, CERN, and Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) to give a patient a whole course of radiation dose on the order of a millisecond. Somehow, the intense dose on the short timescale kills the tumor worse than the surrounding healthy tissue. Interesting note that no experiments can be conducted on living things at CERN, that's why they need CHUV's help.

Various citrus are plotted based on their genetic closeness to each of the three ancestral species: pomelo, mandarin, and citron.

Here is a similar diagram from Wikimedia Commons:

A hawk learning that an audio pedestrian walk signal at a traffic light leads to backed up cars it can use as cover to approach prey.

The published paper is here: https://doi.org/10.3389/fetho.2025.1539103